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How is your signal during the day? Do you have WiFi, GPS, and Data turned on? If 3G, 4G, Wifi, or GPS are on with a weak or non-existant signal, it will eat battery by constantly looking for the signals. My old Captivate would last 24 hours if sitting near a wifi router, but if I'd wander to an area with poor cell coverage and no Wifi, I'd be lucky to get 5 hours with minimal usage. I can't say for sure it's the same with the SGS III, but it sure made a difference on my last phone. If you're inside and not near wifi during the day, try turning off wifi and GPS and see if that makes any difference.
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I have 2 gripes. The first being that in order to silence the phone I need to set the sound icon to silent AND set the default notification to silent. Shouldn't just setting the sound icon to silent suffice?
I agree. It should just universally mute everything. But if I accidentally hit the play button on my music widget it plays like normal and you still hear notifications. The only thing it mutes is the phone ringer. When you walk into a meeting you have to run through and make sure everything is turned down manually, very annoying.
And I'm having a hell of a time getting files to my phone. I haven't been able to get Kies to work wirelessly. And hooked up w/ USB it only works half the time. It took me a few minutes of repeatedly connecting and disconnecting the USB, plus rebooting the phone to eventually get it to work. Same w/ the Android File Transfer app on the Mac. Right now the quickest way is to just add stuff to my Dropbox and download to the phone because I know it will work the first time.
Also not crazy about the physical home button. Besides that the phone is pretty good.
I have 2 gripes. The first being that in order to silence the phone I need to set the sound icon to silent AND set the default notification to silent. Shouldn't just setting the sound icon to silent suffice? Silly.
I agree. It should just universally mute everything. But if I accidentally hit the play button on my music widget it plays like normal and you still hear notifications. The only thing it mutes is the phone ringer. When you walk into a meeting you have to run through and make sure everything is turned down manually, very annoying.
plus have juice defender and app task killer running.
Try the "Simple Sound Profile Widget." It's a 1x1 widget which allows you to customize various sound profiles with differing volumes for Ringer/Notification/Media.
I highly recommend it.
my only gripe Is that the palm swipe to capture doesn't work at all. Other motion gimmicks do, and it's turned on but I just can't get it to work anywhere. I switched back to touchwiz from apex and it still didn't solve it . o well, hardware buttons it is.
oh and for the people crying about the keyboard, buy SwiftKey and be done with it.
p. s. apex FTW.
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Hello everybody.
My two gripes are the keyboard, and the native email client (not gmail).
The stock keyboard on my GS2 Skyrocket was much more fluid, and the predictive text was better IMO. I am now using SwiftKey and pleasantly surprised how nicely it works.
The native email client is horrible! Again, it was much better on the GS2. For starters when opening up an email (hotmail) with images, they don't display. Now I know they usually don't automatically display but you do get a show images and always show from this sender options, but it doesn't in this client. You can scroll down to the bottom of the email and click on the Load more details button, and only then the images will load. I have to do this every single time. I have ensured that the display images option in the settings is checked off. Am I missing something here or is this how it's going to be unless I use a third party email client for hotmail?
Oh and I almost forgot, what's up with the emails not fitting to screen by default? That's a downer as well!
These aren't major gripes but am dissapointed that the previous iterations were, ulitmately, better than the ones in the GS3.
I love this phone though, am happy I got it, and am having fun learning something new every day.
Ironic that your post is just as pointless as people getting mad at the OP's experience.Yawn, literally. I'm using my Bold 9900, gets the job done as far as email, text, and calls. I use it on occasion to browse the web and Facebook. I will hold off until October or so to get the SIII (Tmo) but who knows what will be out then. The reason I'm holding off is because the price will probably drop a bit and my contract isn't up until next year this time regardless. But going back to the op. why is everyone getting so mad, the title says "Samsung Galaxy S3 Gripes," he's obviously gong to tell what he doesn't like about the phone. He said it's slow, lags, whatever. He didn't ask you to fix it. All he said was it was slow. That's his experience with it.
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Palm swipe does work. Used it multiple times. Just make sure you use the side of your palm & swipe firmly.
Ironic that your post is just as pointless as people getting mad at the OP's experience.